The ink from your pen should be as dark and rich as blood. You should be able to whip out your pen faster than a cowboy draws his pistol. Yet, nowadays, we sign our receipts with the cheap "pen" given to us by the cashier. Ezekiel didn't write - he inscribed. In the German word for "write" - SCHREIBEN - we hear how the ancients viewed the act of applying pen to paper.
